Towel Day: 42 Occurrences of The Number 42 in Pop Culture

Any good geek knows that the answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything is 42, but were you aware just how often that number has crept up in pop culture? From apartment numbers to Hurley numbers, dates to car registrations, the number 42 is everywhere when you start looking hard enough. Here are 42 examples of the number turning up in pop culture.

1. The first reference that Douglas Adams made to 42 was during a sketch called “The Hole in the Wall Club” in which Griff Rhys Jones mentions the 42nd meeting of the Crawley and District Paranoid Society.

17. In The Simpsons, Professor Frink invents a super sour lemon ball called the 77X42.

18. In Stargate Universe, Dr Nicholas Rush write the number 46 on a whiteboard during a dream, Dr Daniel Jackson sees it and says “Well, it’s not the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything.”